Archive Problems: Clipper & Yoast's SEO Plugin
Have any of you experienced problems with the Yoast plugin and Clipper automatically defining your pages as "Archives" and adding the Archive prefix to your Title?
After installing Yoast and configuring it properly with Google Webmaster Tools, Adding my Analytics snippet and enabling Yoast's Advanced Settings I started noticing that all my store's pages had:
Store Name + Archive | Website Name
Before adding Yoast, everything was normal like this:
Store Name | Website Name
So I went in and changed all the Title Templates that were making this happen. It was happening to almost all my pages though... In Google searches, my Store Pages, Tag Pages and Category Pages would show up like this:
Store Name + Archive | Website Name
Tag Name + Archive | Website Name
Category Name + Archive | Website Name
I Googled the hell out of Archive Pages and could only find info about Author Pages and what their Archive Pages do. This made sense, but I couldn't find any information for why all these other pages were being defined as Archive Pages and what that meant.
The thing I am most afraid of is that they are being considered "Old" when they are infact new and very important pages.
In the Yoast Titles & Metas, it seemed like all the settings under Taxonomies were automatically getting the Archive added to them. So I removed the word Archive from the Taxonomies and saved. Now they look fine. The actual Archive settings tab shows only the Author and Dates for settings.
- Why is everything under the Taxonomies tab (Yoast's Advanced Settings > Titles & Metas > Taxonomies) have Archives automatically appended to the Page's Title?
- Are they still being seen as Archives by Webmaster Tools?
- Are there other downsides I am not seeing?
- Why is Yoast doing this by default with Clipper and not any of my other websites?
-tank
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